I’ve bitten the bullet and kicked off the upgrade to GCC 4.1.1. I’ll get my system back in about a week I reckon… 🙂
Gentoo recommends a process that starts off rebuilding GCC and glibc, but continues on to rebuild your entire system. Fair enough too: mixing binaries built with different compilers and linked against different library levels is a bit of a disaster waiting to happen.
In my case, though, that’s a total of 991 packages to be rebuilt! It’s been going for about 16 hours so far, and it’s up to 273 — but it’s got some big ones to get to now, having started on kdelibs…
Wait, it just finished kdelibs… W00t! Lucky number 274 is… koffice!
I might not have use of my machine for a while, but I don’t know of any of the popular distros that will allow such a radical upgrade of the toolchain, let alone give you instructions to do it and help if it goes wrong. Mind you, in place upgrades to things like Fedora Core are supposed to work pretty well now, so I guess I’m just choosing a different poison.
After the system is rebuilt it’ll be a rebuild of the kernel. Compared to the rest of the system though the kernel build will be over in a jiffy. 🙂
Crossed Wires 